Lachnocnema brimo Karsch 1893

Lachnocnema brimo Karsch
Lachnocnema brimo Karsch, 1893: 217. H. H. Druce, 1910a: 9, 24; pi. 3, figs. 7, 7a (photo of type). Aurivillius, 1922 [1908-1925]: 364. de Fleury, 1926: 140 (Guinea). Seth-Smith, 1938: 145 (Ghana).
This species may be distinguished from bibulus by ( 1 ) the tiny pale patch in M1-M2-M3 of forewing above in the female, the hindwing being without a distinct pale patch; and (2) in both sexes below on the forewing the three postmedian quadrate spots just beyond the cell-end form in brimo a series regularly increasing in thickness posteriorly and with their distal edges progressively offset basad; while in bibulus, as in most other members of the genus, the posterior two of these spots are subequal in size and have their distal edges in line, both together strongly offset basad from the nearly isolated first spot. The regularity of the median diagonal band of the hindwing below, used by Aurivillius (1922) in his key, is far too variable to be of much value.
The species was described from Togo and has been recorded also from Republic of Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria (Aurivillius, 1922) and Ethiopia (Carpenter, 1935: 390). There are specimens in Carnegie Museum from Cameroon and Gabon. L. brimo has not hitherto been recorded from Liberia.
Liberia: Fisherman's Lake, 1 S , V (Thomas; C. M.); Harbel, 1 9, II (Fox). This subfamily is distinguished by the following combination of characters: legs subcylindrical or in some cases distally compressed laterally; male fore tarsus fused to a single segment, its tip produced to a ventrally curved point, the segment sparsely to moderately spinose ventrally, but not distad of macrotrichial origins. Hindleg with first tarsal segment subequal to or much longer than remaining tarsal segments together. I now believe that the "Spalginae" as treated in my classification of the Lycaenae (Clench, 1955: 267) is not sufficiently distinct from the Gerydinae to warrant separation at subfamily level and accordingly I place it here as a tribe within the subfamily Gerydinae.
All known larvae of the Gerydinae are carnivorous, feeding on coccids, membracids and jassids. They are roughly onisciform and may be provided with some longish dorsal hair.
The subfamily, with the single exception of the North American Feniseca, is entirely Old World in distribution.

Lachnocnema emperamus, the common woolly legs or western woolly legs, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and western and central Kenya. The habitat consists of savanna and degraded forests.

The larvae feed on Psyllidae species.